Wallsend Metro station celebrates Roman heritage

Photographer Graeme Peacock with some of his pictures at Wallsend Metro station

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Stunning photographs celebrating Tyneside’s Roman heritage have been unveiled at a Metro station after a revamp.

The Wallsend station has been given a new look as part of a refurbishment scheme led by Nexus.

The improvements at the site include new signage, seating, ticketing machines, double hand rails and better flooring.

In addition, images taken from various locations along Hadrian’s Wall have been installed at the platforms as well as information panels telling passengers about the town’s Roman history.

The wall, a World Heritage Site, began at the fortress of Segedunum, a stone’s throw away from the Metro station, and stretched to Bowness on Solway in Cumbria.

In 2003, signs in Latin were put up at the site to mark the area’s position at the end of the wall. It remains the only station in the world to have such signs.

The new pictures, taken by photographer Graeme Peacock, show locations such as Chollerford, Heddon-on-the-Wall, the South Shields Arbeia Roman Fort, Birdoswald Fort and Solway Firth.

Mr Peacock, 47, who lives near Wylam, Northumberland, said: “I have tried to show the full panorama from Hadrian’s Wall through different seasons. There is an image of Chollerford in the summer and Heddon-on-the-Wall after a snowfall in the winter.

“The photographs were taken from the wall itself to give the impression of what a Roman soldier would have been looking out at.”